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Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research| July 2010 | Vol. 1 | Issue 5 | pp. 482-639 Volume 1 Issue 5 Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research Focus Issue Time & Consciousness Two Faces of One Mystery? Guest Editor Gregory M. Nixon, PhD Advisory Board Dainis Zeps, Senior Researcher, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science. Univ. of Latvia, Latvia Matti Pitkanen, Ph.D., Independent Researcher, Finland Arkadiusz Jadczyk, Professor (guest), Center CAIROS, IMT, Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Alan J Oliver, Independent Researcher, Australia Sultan Tarlacı, Neurology Specialist, NeuroQuantologist, Turkey Gregory M. Nixon, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Stephen P. Smith, Visiting Scientist, Physics Dept., UC Davis, United States ISSN: 2153-8212 Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research www.JCER.com Published by QuantumDream, Inc. Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research| July 2010 | Vol. 1 | Issue 5 | pp. 482-639 PAUSE OF THE CLOCK I sat down in a space of time. It was a backwater of silence, a white silence, a formidable ring wherein the stars collided with the twelve floating black numerals. Federico Garcia Lorca Lorca, Federico Garciá (2005). “The pause of clock” (S. Read, trans.). The Selected Poems of Federico Garciá Lorca (p. 33). New York: New Directions. Originally published 1955. ISSN: 2153-8212 Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research www.JCER.com Published by QuantumDream, Inc. Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research | July 2010 | Vol. 1 | Issue 5 | pp. 482-639 i Table of Contents Guest Editorial Time and Experience: Twins of the Eternal Now Gregory M. Nixon 482-489 Research Essay Why Time Flies When You’re Having Fun William A. Adams 490-500 Liberation and Its Constraints: A Philosophical Analysis of Key Issues in Psychiatry Steven Bindeman 501-510 Now Gordon Globus 511-515 ‘Landscapes’ of Mentality, Consciousness and Time Chris Nunn 516-528 Special Relativity and Perception: The Singular Time of Psychology and Physics Stephen E. Robbins 529-559 Phenomenal Time and its Biological Correlates Ram L. P. Vimal & Christopher J. Davia 560-572 Exploration Time and Its Relationship to Consciousness: An Overview Mansoor Malik & Maria Hipolito 573-579 Time, Consciousness and the Foundations of Science Stephen Deiss 580-584 Contextual Division and the Analysis of Linear Time Christopher Holvenstot 585-609 How Unconditioned Consciousness, Infinite Information, Potential Energy, and Time Created Our Universe Leon H. Maurer 610-624 Whitehead and the Elusive Present: Process Philosophy’s Creative Core Gregory M. 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